Jean Soyer

Purple, Red, Orange and Black Vertical Abstract Oil Painting

Named "Towards Yesterday", this painting depicts figuratively a woman elegantly dressed immersed with birds in an abstract landscape of nature full of light, as if she is immersed in...

This artwork by Françoise Duprat depicts an abstract marine landscape in turquoise blue with red touch. In her early artist carrier Françoise painted mostly figurative & symbolist ar...

Titled "Of Offering and of Signs," this abstract expressionist painting is the creation of Annie Tremsal, rendered using oiled ocher on canvas. The artwork is stretched onto a wooden frame and remains unframed. Annie Tremsal is an expressionist painter whose art is characterized by a profound creative liberty, evident not only in the visual imagery of her pieces but also in the diverse range of media she employs, such as steel, Chinese paper, canvas, fabric, and wood. As a faithful inheritor of the traditional techniques of the great masters, Annie Tremsal formulates her own mediums using components like oil, binders, pigments, oxide powders, fine marble powder, and a rich array of fine ocher powders sourced from naturally occurring minerals...

This artwork features a tangle of white and blue rectangles and basic geometrical shapes over a textured substrate. On the middle top, aquamrine/turquoise almost vertical bands fall from the top, and a dark red pile occupies the middle of the canvas. Most of Françoise Duprat...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color. He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.” “The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.” “My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...

Wild and Free is a semi-abstract seascape painting by Helen Howells. It was inspired by the coast of South Wales, which is my homeland. It is not of any specific place, but is a comb...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vastness” and instill feelings of awe in his viewers, he says. Furthering his exploration of the abstract, Barkoff paints in his studio, rather than en plein air, fabricating landscapes from his visual and emotional memories. The Impressionist-turned-Expressionist painter is inspired by the atmospheric qualities of works by Claude Monet and J. M. W. Turner and cites Gerhard Richter as a more contemporary influence. He recently transitioned from using a paintbrush to using a squeegee and palette knives for his work, as the latter allow for greater spontaneity and manipulation of color. He says of his work: “Looking at a blank canvas can be both exciting and frightening at the same time. Most of the time exciting wins out and I plunge in. That is, I paint the landscape, which for me is what it’s all about. The landscape represents nature and contemplating nature is being in touch with God. You could cast me as a modern-day Luminist-Tonalist-Impressionist. Monet’s Water Lilies have been a big influence, along with the landscape painter Wolf Kahn.” “The landscape is what I see before me or from my mind’s eye. When I paint a mountain or a tree, I’m not trying to capture the mountain or tree literally (that’s what a photograph does). I’m trying to express my inner spirit in the painting – to transcend the physical to reach the spiritual.” “My most successful pictures are not those that are the most accurate in terms of nature, but are the ones where the state of my consciousness allowed me to translate my feelings – my deepest inner feelings – to the canvas. When I get into this altered state...

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...